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Get ready for a visual trip. After showing Tarsem Signh’s The Cell at last year’s festival, Ebert has brought The Fall to represent the acclaimed director this year. Set in a 1915 Los Angelos hospital, The Fall was shot at 18 different locations around the world to support the fantasy interior story of the film.
Confined within the hospital, Roy Walker's (Lee Pace) life is crumbling around him after suffering a fall as a stunt man and losing his girlfriend to the leading man. Unable to walk, he befriends a young girl, Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), in the hopes of getting her to steal some morphine from the hospital so he can end his life. Roy begins to tell Alexandria a story of heroes, evil villains and love—all brilliantly played out before the exotic background locations—that includes other patients and employees from the hospital. As the story unfolds, it starts to resemble Roy’s life in fairytale form, but as despair overtakes the story, Alexandria realizes there might be more to it than just fiction.
The Fall will be visually incredible, and the buzz around both Pace and Untaru’s performances might just make this one of the favorites at Ebertfest.
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